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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 16/09/2026

Aerospace Flowchart xkcd.com/3298/

Comic: Aerospace Engineer Problem-Solving Flowchart. [Start→Could we solve this problem by building giant airships again?→(No)→Try other solutions→(four arrows leading off-panel)]

Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I thought my dad was out of touch when I was a kid, told myself I'd never be so disconnected from the Zeitgeist. Now I'm 37 with a kid and I look at my Bluesky feed or talk to someone under 25 and realise that I am become dad, oblivious to all.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I like both of these equally. I think Cassiterite just edges it for me though.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Chrysocolia is just so beautiful. It gets my vote.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Have to go halite here. It's a mineral I use every day.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Hafnon is a cool name, and I love a good pegmatite. It gets my vote today.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Monazite is cool, yes. But Andalusite makes me remember (fondly, although I hated it at the time) the hours spent staring down a microscope in the mineralogy lab at university. I was so, so slow at drawing the thin sections.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm going for Asagiite today. I love quartz, we all do, but it's time to show some love to the minerals that we don't see everywhere!

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I've started a fun Football Manager 26 save with the team from a village near me. They're in step 5 of non league (so tier 9 of the English pyramid) For all its flaws, I've had a good time with FM26. 27 is coming so I've had some time to think about 26.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

No story behind today's vote. No rambling anecdote. I chose Cuprite because it's pretty.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today's vote is Vesuvianite. My wife and I went around Italy on our honeymoon, so Vesuvius brings back fond memories of a boat ride across the Bay of Naples back to Sorrento with Mt. Vesuvius looming.

Mount Vesuvius looms over a town on its flanks, with the slate coloured Bay of Naples in the foreground. Blue sky peeks through fluffy grey white clouds.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Voting Anorthite here. At university we had to give a presentation on a mineral and my friend and I had Anorthite. One of our slides was titled simply "But what about The Moon?"

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

How can I not vote for something called "Red Hobgoblin"?

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Mineral Cup 2026 is here! Truly the most wonderful time of the year. I voted for Azurite today as it took me back to a university field trip in Southern Spain where we pulled over and wandered around an old quarry littered with the stuff. It's quite beautiful. I have a chunk of it somewhere.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Just seen a kid with a t shirt that said "NAPLES ITALIA" and it's bothered me more than it should have.

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Annie Wu @anniewu.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Always kind of thinking about Marisa Tomei's 3/4 length sleeve (?), mock neck (?), lightly shoulder-padded (?), floral catsuit from MY COUSIN VINNY so I sketched it.

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026

The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan

Piers Morgan

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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The breakup of Yugoslavia, especially the siege of Sarajevo. I went with a friend to Bosnia last year because I have been fascinated by the country since then. It's beautiful, the people are kind.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Far Cry 5. I feel like there are enough people who've kept a low profile/avoided the Peggies that I could probably survive?

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Describe your music taste with three artists, no genres. Slayer Phoebe Bridgers My Chemical Romance

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Adapt Riftwar. If I had to be more specific simply for time reasons, I'd choose the Empire Trilogy because I love Mara.

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Geoffrey Bunting @geoffreybunting.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

NEW: For @indiewire.com, I spoke to Peter Jackson, Richard Taylor, Jamie Selkirk and *many* more for an oral history of The Frighteners as it turns 30. Specifically, how the commercial flop drove innovation at Wētā, paved the way for The Lord of the Rings, and was just a whole lot of fun to make.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This is Season 2 of The Righteous Gemstones

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Greeks on ships movie. Very good.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

The wrong teams won the semis. Yes I'm biased. So what.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

All the talk about the Falklands now, that doesn't matter, it's absolutely nothing on the Hand of God.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Authoritarians are obsessed with gold, I would imagine for the status of it rather than the aesthetic. Because coating things in gold makes them look tacky as hell.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I sit in the library. I count people coming through the door. Person number 37 is selected. We cross the car park to the office. I have a room where sits artist. This person is now their muse. I commission a lifetime of works based on them. Both are rewarded handsomely. The artist is bloody awful.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I suppose this makes sense as I grew up Anglican and I'm married to an Irish Catholic, and all my religious friends seem to be Catholic too. The vibes have clearly rubbed off on me.

Your closest neighborhood
Roman Catholic
about 22% of US adults · national
Sacramental · the largest American Christian neighborhood
Your taste lives in the largest Christian neighborhood in America and the religious tradition with the deepest aesthetic and intellectual archive going. American Catholics today range across every political and class position, from the post‐Vatican II social‐justice tradition through working‐class urban parishes to the Latin Mass and Word on Fire conservatives. The unifying culture is a sacramental imagination, an instinct for the holy in matter, and the church year as the year's hinge.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson Catch-22 by Joseph Heller The Stranger by Albert Camus

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Micah rarely, if ever, misses. My quality of life has immensely improved since I stopped thinking I could change anyone's mind on the internet.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

NYT next week, probably: "Is the Pope Catholic? People in this Dubuque, Iowa diner aren't so sure"

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Chloé Stawski @chlowski.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

for once, « woman fixing the man she’s dating » gets proper credit

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Happy New Year. May it be full of weird and wonderful shit that you enjoy and that you look back on and think 'yeah, that was pretty good'

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Still alive. Have started my MSc dissertation, been to Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. My wife and I are expecting our first kiddo in April. The DIY continues. Have built a shed and am currently boarding the loft. In other words, it's all go here.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

I now love the hire. I wanted Ben Johnson as I thought he'd do incredible things with Drake Maye (he would have done) but Vrabel feels like the perfect coach for this Pats team. I don't think we'll win the Super Bowl, but it's nice to feel like there is a plan for the first time in years.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Been away for a few months. Bought a house, been to Italy, done some stuff, seen some stuff. Basically staying mostly off social media because I don't really have a lot to add and it is better for my mental health. Apparently there's video and verification here now?

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Incredibly disappointed but quite relieved in a way the SI and Sega have made the decision to delay FM25. Makes sense to skip to a game that hopefully works but have it in November. We still have 24, it works, and I've got a couple of saves I wasn't quite done with yet.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I don't hate the hire, I don't love the hire. I'm entirely whelmed by this.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I don't think it's a surprise Mayo was fired. I think it'll be Vrabel who succeeds him and I think he'll be okay ish.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Luke Littler is World Darts Champion. Unreal.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

@sickoscommittee.org if you weren't aware it's the World Darts Championship final tonight and seventeen year old Luke Littler is leading three time world champion Michael van Gerwen 4-1. The current record holder for the youngest world champion? Michael van Gerwen, who first won at the age of 24.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Both of these batters at the crease for South Africa have played for Northants. I remember being at a loose end one random June day and watching Bavuma play a lovely knock in a guaranteed draw against Leicestershire. Class player.

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Pete @petetjh.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Never forget that today, Jesus Christ would be a guy you know called Oily Josh

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nice handsome boy @edward86.bsky.social · 02/12/2023

IMPORTANT!!! WHICH CHARACTERS FROM CHRISTMAS SONGS I COULD BEAT IN A FIGHT

characters from christmas songs:

I could beat in a fight:
frosty the snowman
santa (santa baby) (beta male simp)
the grinch
baby jesus
the virgin mary
the virgin joseph
the three wise men (individually)
the little drummer boy
parson brown

i could not beat in a fight:
any reindeer
santa (santa claus is coming to town (omnisicent)
seasick crocodile
heat miser
snow miser
the star of bethlehem
the three wise men (all at once)
dominic the donkey
farmer gray

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